Chapter 98 (1/2)

98THE LAND OF THE SEAL

[The demon lord throws his own children off the cliff]

There was a proverb in the demon society

The enerations of demon lords would drop their children down the cliff, and would only make their successors the ones that survived This custom wasn´t only done by the de the more influential demons

Leivein Adlar was soh this test

Even now he reht hi with his brothers He re cold the moment he looked down the cliff The vast sea spread out to the distance under the cliff While the waves were cal at the top of a pine tree, he could feel the altitude in his body He felt he would definitely die if he was to fall down from there

“Weaklings that would die only to this much aren´t needed by the Adlar family”

Saying only that, their father kicked him down the cliff

Immediately after that, he heard the screa behind hi back at the about their safety After facing an iave a breath while s in order to oppose the waves Rather than breathing, saying he was gasping would be a better way to describe it So up soer at his throat

It was painful, agonising, and exhausting By the tis to the point it felt as if they had become made of lead, he had already hit the shore He re him down, heavy as if they were a lump of metal

With his cheek onto the white beach, he glanced over to the distance There was so those clothes that person earing The wind blew at his clothes and hair, ht

He tried to shout for the name of his brothers, but because his throat was dry, only air would come out when he opened his mouth Because he couldn´t raise his voice, and because he felt dull to h he was only a child, he intuitively felt the fact that his [death] was nearing

His brothers were dead He was probably also going to die

Facing such reality, his heart started to tremble

His body started creaking left and right A pain that felt as if it ran through inside his bones started to spread throughout his body Because of the sea water, his body beca How much would of a relief would it be if he was to die and finally be released frohts, he started to feel he should let the sleepiness wrapping around his body take over his consciousness But at the same time… he also wished he wouldn´t die

He didn´t want to die at a place like this He still wanted to live

Leivein wanted to go back to his home, even if he was only to be away fro all his heart, he was able to h he made all the effort, all he was able to do was to scratch the sand He couldn´t th deep from his heart and moved forward…

It was at that time that it happened

“What is the matter, boy?”

He saw a foot

When he raised his face, he saw a young girl that was looking at hiolden hair wok, beautiful round eyes filled with curiosity and a smooth white skin

“You still want to live, don´t you?”

The young girl took out a water canteen froht it to his mouth

“You may drink if you want to live If you don´t, do not drink I like de willpower The De after all”

Seeing Leivein putting his irl showed a smile

That smile was like a flower that sprouted in the desert His eyes were being sucked by that lovely smile

That demon was Charlotte Demonz

She was the girl that would take the position of De of the Demon Lord

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That was darkness

Being assaulted by the feeling of hurry, Rook Barusak continued his path while dragging his hand over the wall

At first, light would still reach the cave However, after going on for just ten meters, his field of view became completely shut by darkness Even at the tiht his eyes would still get used to the darkness However, this tiht, his eyes didn´t become used to the darkness Even if he was to focus his eyes with all he had, it was still only darkness and nothing else

Even though only a few minutes should have passed by now, he felt as if it had already been more than ten minutes

Because of that, when he was finally able to see a bit of light, he let out a sigh of relief

The true identity of that light was the light green ht and diht of theat the stone walls, he carefully proceeded step by step

“…!”

A brighter light was co from the corner just a bit ahead of him

Nine out of ten that was the location of the seal… In other words, it was the place of his last fight Rook leaned his body at the wall right next to the corner With one of his hands, he checked the arabbed his sword

Just a bit more

If he was to turn that corner, everything would be over

As if to bring out his fighting spirit, Rook slowly breathed in and out And then, he carefully peeked at the corner Perhaps because he had been walking at such a dark place all this tihtness, his eyes started to feel dazzled Narrowing his eyes, he tried to check the situation of the place even if for only a bit

At that place was a stone hut

At that open room, the smell of dampness wafted around He distinctly felt a lonely presence There was a stone coffin enshrined inside the stone hut There were torches at the walls paralel to one another illu Over the stone coffin was someone When the fire of the torches revealed that person´s face, Rook gave out a sigh of relief

“…Princess”

Rook gulped down and coe

For the stone coffin to open, it was necessary to sacrifice the blood of the royalty and of a spiritualist of one of the four spiritualist families If Rook was to let it happen, the Demon Lord would be resurrected and the world would fall in chaos Looking from his view, it was still impossible to know for sure if the princess was still alive He could see that nobody other than the princess had been brought there; nobody of the blood of one of the four spiritualist families other than Rook, such as Raku and Riku, ere also from the same blood Due to that, the Demon Lord still hasn´t resurrected

Yes, the Demon Lord still hasn´t resurrected

Rook didn´t spot anybody else other than the princess Perhaps they had gone to look for soh he couldn´t lower his guard just because of that… it was still very convenient for him

“Princess!”

With all his strength, Rook stepped forward

It was his perfect chance right now that nobody was around He must not let this chance slip by His hurried footsteps echoed at the room

“I came to save you, princess Quickly, we need to…!?”

However, when he came closer, he finally noticed

The princess was completely still Her small nose, well-forers weren´tby even a centimeter Yes, it was as if she was a doll

“Could it be this is a doll?”

Was this a trapover the possibility, he touched her cheek with his treers Once he did that, a strand of blood flowed out of her blueish lips At that instant, he felt his before rising blood pressure suddenly drop down all at once

He was too late

He didn´t make it in time